they aren't mystery to me, maybe to others though

 

 

and an Australian $2 coin does not help many get an accurate idea of the dimensions of the black things.

 

Going in an EA81 body. Complete set, just knocked them up from over engineered spec 5mm plate/bar , just not finished - need a hole in each to do that.

 

Anyone time to waste to guess ?

Nice fab job but no clue here and I own an EA81 rig

They kinda look like the knockouts in the body for draining water in the event you choose to drive through lakes with your Subaru.

reinforcement plates for where the strut tops bolt to the strut tower

OK, fingers off the buzzers !

 

I hope it did not hurt too many heads Tom has got it 

 

I plan to shove EA82 front struts in EA81 to make use of some left overs, do away with old soft struts, and the three stud strut mounts are needed to take the larger bore strut. The jelly bean shape was taken directly from the factory reinforcement plates fitted to the tower tops. Going to need two per side for the new hole locations.

 

WooHoo Tom, well done !

I have a crusty old mount I have removed the splined studs from. Going to drill one of three mount holes out to suit the EA81 M10, mount the old crusty underneath where they belong, use an M10 to bolt it in, as a template drill guide at the front side. Using the rear most hole as the single to keep the strut line-up in 4WD position. It will look mounted in reverse to EA82 strut tops.

This whole idea will also help towards in keeping suspension from donor vehicle to go with donor engine - EA82T

Jonno just make sure the "Pin" is firmly secured in that Hand Grenade Engine, I would have gone EJ 18 0r EJ 20 seeing as they are self certification compliant in NSW being within the 15% self certification ruling size wise.

I remembered you saying something about those in another thread.

 

Soon as I saw the shape I knew what they were.